Author: Agustín Rivera.
Last Tuesday, Casa Asia in Barcelona presented the book Hiroshima: testimonies of the last survivors, by journalist and writer Agustín Rivera.
The book does not focus on the devastation caused by the first atomic bomb in history, but on the stories of its survivors. Through interviews, Agustín Rivera gathers the voices, in the first person, of the victims of an event that marked their existence forever: the pain, the after-effects and even the feeling of guilt for not having been able to help others affected in a worse situation.
The book also recounts the author’s experience as a reporter for Diario 16, El Mundo and El Confidencial in the journalistic coverage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1995, 2001 and 2012.
Agustín Rivera has written a chronicle of the hibakusha, the survivors of the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two of the most shocking events of the 20th century. For the author, it is “a work to discover the eternal noise of the dead and the capacity to overcome, without forgetting that we are memory”.
Pages: 312
Publisher: KAILAS
Binding: Soft cover
ISBN: 9788418345623
RPP: 20,80 euros
